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901.
by hitekker 6y ago
> But if you're going to do it, you need to build up a case and make it carefully and dispassionately, and above all maintain your professionalism. Last time I checked, the whistleblower wasn't raving or cursing on the way out.
902.
by hitekker 6y ago
The opening image looks like the start of a scam: https://telegra.ph/file/c6f281b62b5909d0c5bad.png Group of faceless people against a scenic vista, arms around and supporting each other, under the flag of the "pr
903.
by hitekker 6y ago
I think the point of the GP, using your metaphor, is that a company's leaders have to identify and excise cancer early and often, lest it metastasize across the organization.
904.
by hitekker 6y ago
The Exhibit A example is perpetual motion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
905.
by hitekker 6y ago
A clear, concise & clever blog post. Quizzing the community on its supposed expertise, is such an effective way to separate rhetoric from reality.
906.
by hitekker 6y ago
"Just asking questions" and then rejecting a community's answers seems like a fruitless strategy for learning. It is also uncomfortably close to the tactics of creationists, antivaxxers, and other conspiracy theorists.
907.
by hitekker 6y ago
From the outside, your comment reads as "I like him, I identify with him, I won't question him."
908.
by hitekker 6y ago
Have you considered researching the subject matter yourself? The parent articulated that this is psuedoscience, preached by a man who has advocated self-serving psuedoscience before.
909.
by hitekker 7y ago
For organizations infested with unconscious incentives, heroism signals empire building: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872355
910.
by hitekker 7y ago
> I'd trade in my JavaScript for J2EE about as fast as I'd quit tech and move up into the mountains. I think the snark is obscuring the point of this comment.
911.
by hitekker 7y ago
I think you’ve chosen the wrong thing to worship.
912.
by hitekker 7y ago
I think the idea that most people are nice to some people, and not nice to others is a generally accepted premise.
913.
by hitekker 7y ago
> without building this huge drama oriented narrative. One person's distress is another person's "drama", I suppose.
914.
by hitekker 7y ago
There's also the third type of comment: the outright, raging denials from Elm enthusiasts. If anything turns me off a programming language, it's the righteous fury a community rains down upon its naysayers.
915.
by hitekker 7y ago
> And yet any attempt to do so is described by them as knifing Elm in the back. Do you have an opinion on open source communities that threaten and seek vengeance against their own forks?
916.
by hitekker 7y ago
I'd disagree on the Mario Kart example. The core mechanics of that series have stayed roughly the same, but the little additions have created a different, deeper experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3oz5uth_90
917.
by hitekker 7y ago
Prezi, the original company that backed Elm, laid-off the maintainer and then deprecated Elm in their codebase.
918.
by hitekker 7y ago
At least it helps to signal the author's motivation.
919.
by hitekker 7y ago
> Good people existing does not imply that everyone else is bad. It implies that to the immoral who pretend they’re moral. It reminds them of their own hollowness, which provokes a lashing out.
920.
by hitekker 7y ago
Why did you change your profile from "Developer Advocate" to "Engineer" ?
921.
by hitekker 7y ago
And then seeing the rest of the defenders slink back to the shadows. Until the next framework hype cycle comes along...
922.
by hitekker 7y ago
> Finding a leader who can replace you is a miniscule piece of being a leader. Is this view based on the way Seneca Systems was terminated?
923.
by hitekker 7y ago
You mean the original decision to deprecate yarn and replace it with an a new package manager for a set of experimental features?
924.
by hitekker 7y ago
HackerOne has threatened to ban researchers who disclose responsibly.
925.
by hitekker 7y ago
Agreed. Mind games during job interviews signals toxicity, or at the least, an insecure interviewer craving a power-trip.
926.
by hitekker 7y ago
> That might be how you “feel” > The go community has been incredibly welcoming. Jeez, what a disconnect.
927.
by hitekker 7y ago
Seems like a huge point to leave out. Are you affiliated with Uber?
928.
by hitekker 7y ago
That criticism wasn’t against you; I was actually thinking about how the community handled Hans Reiser 10 years ago. If you feel personally attacked, though, then that might warrant some introspection.
929.
by hitekker 7y ago
A man who styles himself an internet visionary while abdicating his responsibility to the future of the internet is likely to have an ulterior motive when talking about the internet. However I also recognize that our community, like other c
930.
by hitekker 7y ago
> without taking steps to become more involved It’s must be pretty comfortable to assume that the engineers here have never tried giving feedback in their workplace.

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